Afghanistan: Karzai says airstrike killed civilians
09/02/10
NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month’s parliamentary elections. NATO said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province’s normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents, including a Taliban commander and a local head of an allied insurgent group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, responsible for attacks in Kabul and elsewhere...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090200407.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month’s parliamentary elections. NATO said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province’s normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents, including a Taliban commander and a local head of an allied insurgent group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, responsible for attacks in Kabul and elsewhere...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090200407.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=airstrike
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
rudkla - 6. Sep, 10:32
